About working with different versions of PowerPoint

If you have a presentation that was created in Microsoft PowerPoint 95, PowerPoint 97, or PowerPoint 2000, you can open it in PowerPoint 2002. When you save the presentation, it will be saved in the format of the version it was created in. To save a presentation created in an earlier version as a PowerPoint 2002 presentation, give it a new name or save it in a different location.

If you save a PowerPoint 2002 presentation in an earlier version of PowerPoint, you will lose some of the features available in PowerPoint 2002.

PowerPoint 97-2002 & 95 format

When you save a presentation in the PowerPoint 97-2002 & 95 format, the presentation is saved in a single file that includes both the PowerPoint 97-2002 file format and the PowerPoint 95 file format. The file will be large because it contains both sets of data. If file size is not a problem, use this format to make a presentation created in PowerPoint 2002 available to users of earlier PowerPoint versions.

Users of PowerPoint 2002 can continue to work on a presentation in the dual format without losing any features or formatting unique to PowerPoint 2002. When users of an earlier PowerPoint version open a PowerPoint 97-2002 & 95 presentation and save the presentation, features and formatting available in PowerPoint 2002 ù but not in the earlier version ù are lost.

PowerPoint 95 format

PowerPoint 2002 supports all data and formatting of presentations created in PowerPoint 95.

To open a PowerPoint 2002 presentation in PowerPoint 95, you must save the PowerPoint 2002 presentation in PowerPoint 95 format. If a PowerPoint 95 user edits and saves the presentation, features unique to PowerPoint 2002 are lost.